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I Patented Dec 27. 864.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

JOHN H. PORTER, OF NEW YORK, N. Y.

COMBINED ASH-SIFTER AND SHOVEL.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 45,630, datcd Dccember 27, 1864.

To all whom it may conce n- Be it known that I, JOHN H. PORTER, of the city, county, and State of New York, have invented a new and Improved Combination of a Screen and Fire-Shovel; and I do hereby decl are that the following is a full, clear, and exact description thereof, which will enable those skilled in the art to make and use the same, reference being bad to the accompanying drawings, forming parts of this specification, in which- Figure 1 is a plan or top view of my invention. Fig. 2 is a longitudinal vertical section of the sane, taken in the line :20 w, Fig.1.

Similar letters of reference indicate like parts.

This invention consists in combining a screen with a fire-shovel in such a manner that the device may be used either in the capacity ot' a screen or a shovel, and answer equally as good a purpose as articles made separately for each.

The de\ ice is cast in one piece, A being the handle, and B the body or main portion of the device. The sides a a of the body B are curved slightly inward or toward each other, and rounded or of semicircular form at the back of B, as shown at b. These sides and back are slightly inclined or are of flaring form, projecting outward from their lower to tom is solid and slightly inclined upward from the screen to the outer end of the device, as shown clearly in Fi 2. By this arrangement a combined screen and fire-shovel are obtained.

The part D answers the ordinary purpose of a shovel, and,in consequence of being inclined at an angle with the screen 0, the latter cannot interfere with the perfect operation of the shovel. \Vhen the device is used as a screen, it is held about in a horizontal position and the inclination of B prevents ashes and cinders from falling off of it.

The device is designed for use with coalstoves and ranges, and will prove to be extremely convenient for the purpose, and tend to economize greatly in the consumption of coal, for cinders will be sifted at once from the ash-drawer and burned which are now thrown away, many families being extremely careless and negligent as regard the sifting of cinders from ashes when the latter are removed from the house.

I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent- A combined screen and fire-shovel constructed or cast with a bottom having a screen, 0, and solid shovel part D in ditt'erent planes, substantially as shown and described.

JOHN II. PORTER. Witnesses JAMES P. HALL, M. M. LIvrNGs'roN. 

